Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Convinced already that Harvard architectural students are better fitted for their work, as he wishes to teach it, than students of any other college in which he has taught, Joseph F. Hudnut '09, new idea of the Architectural School, is rapidly setting his convictions to work...
...hoped to find men with something, say, of the intellectual stature of the greater gods at Johns Hopkins Medical School in its beginnings. The endowment for one of these proposed chairs is $500,000. Not only will the occupant be well paid but he will have paid assistants to teach and to aid his researches. In sharp contrast to the iron rules that fetter so much of the earlier endowment, these professorships are to be flexible. The chair is to be fitted to the man, not the man to the chair. The sought-for professors will...
...that, from all accounts, the Goettingen students were "very licentious, unrestrained by the government, and addicted to duclling." The professors too, in Bancroft's opinion, were anything but gentlemen in the New England sense. They were learned, to be sure, but "they learn Hebrew, because it is better to teach Hebrew than to till the earth ... In conversation they are dull ... I have seldom been able to get any information from any of them, in company ... The answer always is, I read a lecture on the subject, which you can hear next summer...
...outraged citizens was Major General Amos A. Fries, one-time head of the Chemical Warfare Service, now an indignant critic of Washington's Board of Education and of School Superintendent Frank W. Ballou. Told that a study of Russia might turn children against Communism, he retorted, "Why not teach children about robbery, murder?", proposed that a committee pass on a long list of high school textbooks...
Last week Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl ruled that hereafter the 4.000 employes of District of Columbia public schools must swear every month that they have not "taught or advocated" Communism, otherwise go without pay checks. Since the ruling failed to define the exact meaning of "teach," school officials were in a worse quandary than ever. Not so Major General Fries. Said he: "Three cheers for McCarl! That's just fine. When the law reads so clearly there's nothing else to do but observe...